Magical Hoodoo Bodily Fluids
from Kameron Hurley @ Brutal Women 03 Oct 2006 10:17 am
Fantasy writers don't just make all this stuff up on their own. We have hundreds of thousands of years of mythmaking to draw from:
In the African-American hoodoo tradition, as well as in Sicilian folk-magic, menstrual blood served to a man in his coffee or tea is a sovereign recipe for capturing his sexual attention. No ritual, prayer, or invocation is necessary; you simply add some menstrual blood to the man's coffee or tea. The idea is to get your scent into the beloved's sphere of consciousness. This is nothing more or less than pheromone-magic, and as such it partakes of biology as much as it does of occultism. My Sicilian grandmother believed in its efficacy completely.
Operating on this sort of logic, ingesting coffee would make me want to make love to a coffee bean plant. Hmmm....
...there are probably a hundred (spells for) women who capture a man's semen to rule and control him or to keep him faithful. The most popular way to do this in hoodoo is by making a knot-spell on the man and keeping it tied up in a nation sack. For this purpose, the semen can be fresh or gathered from a discarded condom -- or even stored in the freezer until needed. Most of the rootworkers who have told me about how to capture semen have noted that it is important that the woman not have an orgasm when capturing semen, because then she might get "mixed up in the spell," and fall victim to her own conjurations. "Hold yourself aloof," was how one woman put it to me. "Don't let yourself get mixed into it when you collect his stuff."
Don't give in to the orgasm, ladies! You'll lose all your power!
Seriously, though, that's the first time I've ever read any sort of folksy advice to women about how having an orgasm would somehow deplete their power: you hear this a lot in relation to men and orgasm (Flaubert's moaning, "Well, I lost another book today")
However, for men worried about coming under the seductive wiles of women, some advice:
Because men are thought to be so susceptible to the magical deployment of women's menstrual blood, vaginal fluids, and urine, in some cultures they are taught to avoid eating anything served to them by an unmarried woman which might contain these bodily fluids. It is common for a man to refuse or only warily accept dark-coloured beverages like coffee or tea or foods with brown or red sauces such as barbeque, lasagna, or spaghetti from a woman.
Coffee: it always comes down to the coffee.
In the African-American hoodoo tradition, as well as in Sicilian folk-magic, menstrual blood served to a man in his coffee or tea is a sovereign recipe for capturing his sexual attention. No ritual, prayer, or invocation is necessary; you simply add some menstrual blood to the man's coffee or tea. The idea is to get your scent into the beloved's sphere of consciousness. This is nothing more or less than pheromone-magic, and as such it partakes of biology as much as it does of occultism. My Sicilian grandmother believed in its efficacy completely.
Operating on this sort of logic, ingesting coffee would make me want to make love to a coffee bean plant. Hmmm....
...there are probably a hundred (spells for) women who capture a man's semen to rule and control him or to keep him faithful. The most popular way to do this in hoodoo is by making a knot-spell on the man and keeping it tied up in a nation sack. For this purpose, the semen can be fresh or gathered from a discarded condom -- or even stored in the freezer until needed. Most of the rootworkers who have told me about how to capture semen have noted that it is important that the woman not have an orgasm when capturing semen, because then she might get "mixed up in the spell," and fall victim to her own conjurations. "Hold yourself aloof," was how one woman put it to me. "Don't let yourself get mixed into it when you collect his stuff."
Don't give in to the orgasm, ladies! You'll lose all your power!
Seriously, though, that's the first time I've ever read any sort of folksy advice to women about how having an orgasm would somehow deplete their power: you hear this a lot in relation to men and orgasm (Flaubert's moaning, "Well, I lost another book today")
However, for men worried about coming under the seductive wiles of women, some advice:
Because men are thought to be so susceptible to the magical deployment of women's menstrual blood, vaginal fluids, and urine, in some cultures they are taught to avoid eating anything served to them by an unmarried woman which might contain these bodily fluids. It is common for a man to refuse or only warily accept dark-coloured beverages like coffee or tea or foods with brown or red sauces such as barbeque, lasagna, or spaghetti from a woman.
Coffee: it always comes down to the coffee.
